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House at 170 Otis Street: House at 170 Otis Street: September 4, 1986 : 170 Otis St. West Newton: 77: House at 173–175 Ward Street: House at 173–175 Ward Street: September 4, 1986 : 173–175 Ward St.
Chestnut Street is lined by a significant number of Queen Anne houses, notable among them 170 Chestnut, which features the asymmetrical styling and varied gables, dormers, and projections typical of the style. The houses at 332 and 334 Otis Street are nearly mirror images of one another, with off-center projecting pavilions and hip roofs. [2]
(The Commonwealth Avenue Street Railway connected with the Boston Elevated Railway streetcars near the Newton-Boston boundary at Boston College). It differs from those roads, in that the terrain is much hillier, requiring the road to wind in a more picturesque manner, and in the city's aversion to multiunit apartment blocks.
The House at 170 Otis Street in Newton, Massachusetts is a rare local work of the nationally known Boston architect Hammatt Billings.The two story Second Empire house was built in 1870–71 for Charles Ellis and Emma Claflin Ellis, the daughter of William Claflin, then Governor of Massachusetts, whose own home (no longer extant) was in Newtonville.
The Myrtle Baptist Church at 21 Curve Street has been a center for a thriving African-American community since the 1870s. [8] St. Bernard's Church and Rectory at 1515-29 Washington Street, a Catholic church, is a Newton City Landmark. [5] First Unitarian Church (1905). Photo by John Borchard. Railroad Hotel (1831). Photo by John Borchard.
Newtonville was once served by the now defunct Newton Nexus bus, a free service provided by the city of Newton. Walnut Street is the main street of the village. The urban section of the road is home to restaurants, bakeries, and cafes, several banks, multiple fitness centers, and dry cleaners.
The Newton Highlands Historic District encompasses the historic heart of the village of Newton Highlands in Newton, Massachusetts.When it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, the district extended along Lincoln Street from Woodward to Hartford Streets, and included blocks of Bowdoin, Erie and Hartford Streets south of Lincoln Street. [2]
Sullivan Avenue, an unpaved private road in Newton Upper Falls, is the last remaining portion of the ancient highway connecting Boston and Cambridge with Newton and points west in the 17th century (back then it was called Cambridge Village). Also on Sullivan Avenue is a famous pothole; a geological anomaly where a boulder that was originally ...